The Monopoly of Violence: On the Legitimacy of Violence and Government

The original title of the documentary, screened under the title Monopoly of Violence, is Un pays qui se tient sage, which correctly translates as “A country behaving gently”. And this a reference to the sentence “Voilà une classe qui se tient sage”, meaning “Here’s a class behaving gently”. The source of the title is an incident in France in 2018, when 153 students were arrested and held for hours with their hands on their heads and on their knees. During this so-called punishment, one of the policemen who filmed the incident said these words: “Here’s a class behaving gently” … <a href="https://medium.com/@iam_not_robot/the-monopoly-of-violence-on-the-legitimacy-of-violence-and-government-50108ef7721a">Read More</a>